Matrix assembler chute block, rails, and filling piece for typesetting machines



Jan. 10, 1928. 1,655,702

' W. T. IVINS MATRIX ASSEMBLER GHUTB BLOCK, RAILS, AND FILLING PIECE FOR TYPESETTING MACHINES Filed April v 1927 m ....u:::m::m:!::m: -7

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UNITED s'rarss;

WILLIAM 'r, Ivnvs, on MUNCIE, INDIANA.

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Application filed' April '7,

The present invention relates to improve ments in type setting machines and more especially to those of the class wherein the matrices drop from a magazine as they are released by'the action of a keyboard and are conducted to an assembling point where they are assembled in a line preparatory to the casting operation.

The primary object of theinvention is to provide novel and improved chute'means for conducting the matrices to the assembling point, said chute means having important adjustable features so that it may be positionedin proper relation to the endless conveyor belt.

Another important object of the inven tion lies in the provision of an improved assembler chute, block, rails and filling piece where the partsare readily assembled and disassembled and atiord ready access to the star wheel.

WVith these ends in view, the invention consists in certain improvements and combinations and arrangements of parts all as will be hereinafter more fully described, the features of novelty being pointed out particularly in the claims at the end of the specification.

In the drawing.

Figure 1 is an elevation of the assembling mechanism of a typesetting machine, til? same being constructed in accordance with the present invention,

Figure 2 is an elevation of the assembler chute,

Figure 3 is a sectional view therethrough,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of one of the side rails, and

Figure 5 is a perspective view of the filling piece.

Similar parts are designated by the same reference characters in the several views.

The present invention is applicable generally to a typesetting machine of the class wherein the matrices drop from a magazine when released by keyboard mechanism onto a travelling belt which serves to convey the matrices to a point where they are assembled into a line preparatory to the casting operation. The preferred embodiment of the invention is shown in the accompanying drawings and will be hereinafter described in detail, but it is to be understood that the invention is not restricted to the precise construction shown, as equivalent constructions RAILS, AND'FILLING PIECE son r rnsn'rrnvs I MACHINES. r 1

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are contemplated and will be included within the scope of the claims. 1 y,

In the present instance, the assembling mechanism shown is of the type similar to that used upon type-setting machines of the linotype class, it comprising an endless belt 3 which is usually flat and which fastens around and over a pulley i. The matrices are delivered from the belt to, a delivery chute block A which serves to directgthe matrices to the point where they are assembled into a line. Thedelivery chute block A is composed of a curved strip of metal which is termed h-rein as a filling piece 5, clamped between rails 7 and 7 ,one on each side'of a block 8. Pins 9 pierce the hlock 8 laterally and project through openings :10 in the'side rails 7 and 7. A bolt pierces the block 8 and projects through openings 11 in the side rails 7 and 7 and has a head on one end and the other end is threaded to receive a nut 12, or otherwise.- This nut 12 is tightened against the rail 7 so as toclamp the filling piece 5 between the rails 7 and 7' on the arcuate face 8 of the block 8. A screw 14 pierces an apertured car 15 formed at the bottom of the block 8 to one side thereof to 'mountthe block on the frame 16. This ear 15 is recessed at one corner to form a groove 23. The lower portion of the block 8 is recessed to form a chamber 17 in which is rotatable a usual star wheel 18. My improved filling piece or plate 5 is bowed longitudinally to conform to the curvature of the face 8 of the block 8. The upper end of the filling piece or plate 5 is beveled on its outer side as at 19, while the lower end is notched as at 20 and the edge formedby the notch QO'i-s beveled on the outside. The lower end of the side rail 7 has a depending finger extension 22 which terminates in the corner groove 23. v

' It is to be noted that my filling piece or plate 5 is adjustable up and down to conform to different thicknesses of belt 3 simply byloosening screw 12. The finger extension leads down to the assembler elevator 27 and prevents a lot of'trouble at this point which occurs in a conventional construction because ofa thin matrix catching and some times falling down when the assembler elewater is raised. Also, when the finger extension 22 shows wear, the rail 7 may be taken off and the finger bent so as to close up the gap formed by the wear. These improvements are not bundlesome or intricate to manipulate.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is:

1. In a typesetting machine, the combination of a matrix conveyor belt, a pulley over which the belt passes, and a matrix chute comprising an arcuate filling piece over which the matrices are adapted to slide from oil the belt, and means for adjustably mounting the filling piece in respect to said belt.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a matrix chute for a typesetting machine comprising a block, a bowed filling piece on the block, and means for clamping said plate in different positions on said block.

3. A matrix chute tor typesetting machines including, in combination, a block having an arcuate face, a pair of side rails, a bolt piercing the side rails and the block, a longitudinally bowed filling piece on the a-rcuate face and held thereon by means of the rails and the bolt.

4. A matrix chute tor typesetting machines including, in combination, a block having an arcuate face, pins extending laterally through the block terminating beyond the sides thereof, a pair of side rails one on each side of the block having apertures to receive the pins, a bolt passing through opening-s in the rails and the block, a nut on said bolt, a longitudinally bowed hlling piece on the arcuate face between the side tion. a block havin an 'arcua'te face, 01115 1 C7 h extending laterally through the block terminating beyond the sides thereof, a pair of side rails one on each side of the block having apertures to receive the pins, a bolt passing through the openings in the .rails and the block, a nut on said bolt, a longitudinally bowed plate on the arcuate face between the side rails so that the nut may be tightened to clamp the side rails against the side edges of the plate to hold the same on the arcuate face, the upper end of the plate being beveled inwardly and the lower end thereof being notched and having the edge 01' the notch beveled outwardly.

b. In a type-setting machine, the combination of a matrix conveyor belt, a pulley over which the belt passes, amatrix chute block, filling piece on the block, a pair of rails one to each side of the block and the filling piece, and means for holding said rails in engagement with said filling piece and said block so that the filling piece may be held in different adjusted positions on said block.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

WILLIAM T. IVINS. 

